Approved Courses
The following list includes undergraduate courses that have been approved as of June 2010. Courses added after that date do not appear in this list. Courses eliminated after that date may still appear. Not every course is offered regularly. Students should consult the Schedule of Classes at www.testudo.umd.edu to ascertain which courses are actually offered during a given semester.
COURSE NUMBERING SYSTEM
| Number |
|
Eligibility |
| 000-099 |
|
Non-credit course |
| 100-199 |
|
Primarily freshman course |
| 200-299 |
|
Primarily sophomore course |
| 300-399 |
|
Junior, senior course not acceptable for credit toward graduate degrees |
| 386-387 |
|
Campus-wide internship courses; refer to information describing Experiential Learning |
| 400-499 |
|
Junior, senior course acceptable for credit toward some graduate degree |
| 500-599 |
|
Professional School course (Dentistry, Architecture, Law, Medicine) or post-baccalaureate course |
| 600-899 |
|
Course restricted to graduate students |
| 799 |
|
Master Thesis credit |
| 899 |
|
Doctoral Dissertation credit |
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Courses in "ENAE-Engineering, Aerospace"
ENAE - Engineering, Aerospace
ENAE 100 The Aerospace Engineering Profession (1)
Recommended: ENES100 and MATH140.
Overview of salient aspects of professional practice of Aerospace
Engineering. Introduction to the range of technical expertise needed to
succeed in the profession and the objectives of the various parts of the
Aerospace Engineering program at UMCP in supporting students' efforts in
gaining the required knowledge and skills. Familiarization with
departmental faculty and their areas of research, creation of links with
other students, professional society student chapters, and available
resources. Discussion of ethical issues, business requirements, and
their interactions with technical developments.
ENAE 200 Aerospace Engineering Profession II (1)
Recommended: ENAE100. Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Aerospace
program; and permission of ENGR-Aerospace Engineering department.
Overview of the engineering profession as it pertains to the role of
the engineer in society, professional practice and ethical standards,
career development, opportunities and need for lifelong learning,
importance of safety and standards, effective written, visual, and oral
communications, and the impact of the engineering profession on global
issues.
ENAE 202 Aerospace Computing (3)
Two hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory per week. Corequisite:
Concurrently enrolled in MATH140. Restriction: Must be in Engineering:
Aerospace program; or permission of ENGR-Aerospace Engineering
department.
Introduction to computational tools for the solution of engineering
problems. C++ & MATLAB programming including branching and loops,
functions, file handling, arrays, and data structures. Students will be
introduced to object-oriented programming, basic computing, algorithms,
and principles of software engineering.
ENAE 283 Introduction to Aerospace Systems (3)
Prerequisite: PHYS161, MATH141, and ENES102. Corequisite: Concurrently
enrolled in PHYS261 and PHYS260. Restriction: Must be in Engineering:
Aerospace program. Credit only granted for: (ENAE281 and ENAE282) or
ENAE283. Formerly: ENAE281 and ENAE282.
Introduction to airplanes and space vehicles as aerospace systems.
Fundamentals that describe these systems. Elements of aerodynamics,
airfoils and wings. Airplane performance, stability and control.
Aircraft and rocket propulsion. Fundamentals of orbital motion. Aspects
of vehicle conceptual design.
ENAE 301 Dynamics of Aerospace Systems (3)
Prerequisite: PHYS271, MATH461, PHYS270, MATH246, ENAE283, ENAE202,
ENES102, and MATH241. Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Aerospace
program; or permission of ENGR-Aerospace Engineering department.
Kinematics and dynamics of three dimensional motion of point masses and
rigid bodies with introduction to more general systems. Primary emphasis
on Newtonian methods. Practice in numerical solutions and computer
animation of equations of motion using MATLAB.
ENAE 311 Aerodynamics I (3)
Prerequisite: PHYS271, MATH461, PHYS270, MATH246, ENAE283, ENES220,
ENAE202, and MATH241. Corequisite: Concurrently enrolled in ENES232.
Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Aerospace program; or permission of
ENGR-Aerospace Engineering department. And Junior standing or higher.
Formerly: ENAE471.
Fundamentals of aerodynamics. Elements of compressible flow. Normal and
oblique shock waves. Flows through nozzles, diffusers and wind tunnels.
Elements of the method of characteristics and finite difference
solutions for compressible flows. Aspects of hypersonic flow.
ENAE 324 Aerospace Structures (4)
Prerequisite: ENES220. Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Aerospace
program. Credit only granted for: ENAE322 or ENAE324.
Analysis of torsion, beam bending, plate bending, buckling and their
application to aerospace.
ENAE 362 Aerospace Instrumentation and Experimentation (3)
Two hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisite:
MATH246 and ENAE283. Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Aerospace
program; and Junior standing or higher.
Basic instrumentation electronics including DC electronics, AC
electronics, semiconductors, electro-optics and digital electronics.
Sensing devices used to carry out experiments in Aerospace Engineering
includes metrology, machine tool measurements, bridge circuits, optical
devices, and introduction to computer based data acquisition. Topics
chosen to support measurements in aerodynamics, flight structures and
flight control.
ENAE 380 Flight Software Systems (3)
Three hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory per week.
Prerequisite: ENAE283 and ENAE202. Restriction: Must be in Engineering:
Aerospace program; and Junior standing or higher.
Avionics using advanced sensor and computing technologies are at the
heart of every modern Aerospace vehicle. Advanced software systems to
improve cockpit safety and enable unmanned and deep-space missions.
Object-oriented programming and software engineering concepts required
to design and build complex flight software systems. Software
validation, verification and real-time performance analysis to assess
flight software system reliability and robustness. Human-machine
interface design for piloted systems. Automatic onboard data
acquisition and decision-making for unmanned air and space vehicles.
ENAE 398 Honors Research Project (1-3)
Prerequisite: Must be accepted into Aerospace Honors Program.
Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Aerospace program. Repeatable to 3
credits if content differs.
Planned sequence of steps in aerospace honors research in which students
take three (3) consecutive semesters of this course in partial
fulfillment of aerospace engineering honors program requirements. The
first semester consists of a series of seminars and meetings with
faculty mentors on honors research; two semesters consist of
undergraduate honors research project and paper conducted under the
direction of an aerospace engineering faculty member to be presented at
a conference.
ENAE 403 Aircraft Flight Dynamics (3)
Prerequisite: ENAE414 and ENAE432. Restriction: Must be in Engineering:
Aerospace program; or permission of ENGR-Aerospace Engineering
department.
Study of motion of aircraft, equations of motion, aerodynamic force
representation, longitudinal and lateral motions, response to controls
and to atmospheric disturbances, handling qualities criteria and
other figures of merit.
ENAE 404 Space Flight Dynamics (3)
Prerequisite: ENAE301. Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Aerospace
program; or permission of ENGR-Aerospace Engineering department.
Three-dimensional motion under central fields. Solutions to orbital
motion, orbital elements, time elements. Kepler's laws. Orbital
maneuvering, rendezvous and station-keeping. Rigid-body attitude
dynamics, spacecraft attitude dynamics.
ENAE 414 Aerodynamics II (3)
Prerequisite: ENAE311. Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Aerospace
program; or permission of ENGR-Aerospace Engineering department. And
Junior standing or higher. Formerly: ENAE371.
Aerodynamics of inviscid incompressible flows. Aerodynamic forces and
moments. Fluid statics/buoyancy force. Vorticity, circulation, the
stream function and the velocity potential. Bernoulli's and Laplace's
equations. Flows in low speed wind tunnels and airspeed measurement.
Potential flows involving sources and sinks, doublets, and vortices.
Development of the theory of airfoils and wings.
ENAE 415 Helicopter Theory (3)
Prerequisite: ENAE414. Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Aerospace
program.
Elementary exposition on the theory and practice of aerodynamics applied
to helicopters and other rotary wing aircraft.
ENAE 420 Computational Structural Mechanics (3)
Prerequisite: ENES220 and MATH241; and Must have completed a course in
linear algebra. Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Aerospace program;
or permission of ENGR-Aerospace Engineering department.
Introductory of finite element methods for aerospace engineering
modeling and analysis; equips students with ability to understand
manuals of commercial finite element analysis software.
ENAE 423 Vibration and Aeroelasticity (3)
Prerequisite: ENAE324. Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Aerospace
program; or permission of ENGR-Aerospace Engineering department.
Dynamic response of single and multiple degrees of freedom systems,
finite element modeling, wing divergence, aileron reversal, wing and
panel flutter.
ENAE 425 Mechanics of Composite Structures (3)
Prerequisite: MATH246, ENAE324, ENES220, and MATH241.
Introduction to structures composed of composite materials and their
applications in aerospace. In particular, filamentary composite
materials are studied. Material types and fabrication techniques,
material properties, micromechanics, anisotropic elasticity,
introduction to failure concepts.
ENAE 432 Control of Aerospace Systems (3)
Prerequisite: Minimum grade of C- in ENAE301 and ENAE283. Restriction:
Junior standing or higher; and must be in Engineering: Aerospace
program. Formerly: ENAE332.
An introduction to the feedback control of dynamic systems. Laplace
transforms and transfer function techniques; frequency response and Bode
diagrams. Stability analysis via root locus and Nyquist techniques.
Performance specifications in time and frequency domains, and design of
compensation strategies to meet performance goals.
ENAE 441 Space Navigation and Guidance (3)
Prerequisite: ENAE404 and ENAE432. Restriction: Must be in Engineering:
Aerospace program; or permission of ENGR-Aerospace Engineering
department.
Principles of navigation. Celestial, radio, and inertial navigation
schemes. Navigational and guidance requirements for orbital, planetary,
and atmospheric entry missions. Fundamentals of communications and
information theory. Link budgets, antennas and telemetry systems.
ENAE 455 Aircraft Propulsion and Power (3)
Prerequisite: ENES232, ENAE414, and ENAE311. Restriction: Must be in
Engineering: Aerospace program; or permission of ENGR-Aerospace
Engineering department.
Thermodynamic cycle analysis, aerothermochemistry of fuels and
propellants, operating principles of piston, turbojet, fanjet, and
other variations of airbreathing aircraft power units.
ENAE 457 Space Propulsion and Power (3)
Prerequisite: PHYS271, ENES232, PHYS270, and ENAE311. Restriction: Must
be in Engineering: Aerospace program; or permission of ENGR-Aerospace
Engineering department. And Senior standing.
Thermodynamic cycle analysis, aerothermochemistry of fuels and
propellants, operating principles of rocket, ion, and other
exoatmospheric power units.
ENAE 464 Aerospace Engineering Laboratory (3)
Two hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory per week.
Prerequisite: ENAE324, ENAE362, ENAE311, and ENAE432. Restriction: Must
be in Engineering: Aerospace program; or permission of ENGR-Aerospace
Engineering department.
Application of fundamental measuring techniques to measurements in
aerospace engineering. Includes experiments in aerodynamics, structures,
propulsion, flight dynamics and astrodynamics. Correlation of theory
with experimental results.
ENAE 471 Aircraft Flight Testing (3)
Prerequisite: ENAE414. Corequisite: Concurrently enrolled in ENAE403.
Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Aerospace program.
Provides basic instruction to aircraft flight testing and demonstrates
need for systematic, well-proven technique to allow for accurate
airplane performance. Concepts of aerodynamics, airplane performance,
and stability and control. Emphasis on single-engine general aviation
type aircraft.
ENAE 480 Fundamentals of Engineering Design (3)
Two hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisite:
ENES220 and ENES102. And ENAE202; or students who have taken courses
with similar or comparable course content may contact the department.
Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Aerospace program; or permission of
ENGR-Aerospace Engineering department. Credit only granted for: ENAE480
or ENAE488P. Formerly: ENAE488P.
Presents broad overview at advanced level of designing a part as it
relates to design philosophies in solving engineering and manufacturing
problems. Emphasis is placed on manufacturing requirements and their
effects on product processing.
ENAE 481 Principles of Aircraft Design (3)
Prerequisite: ENAE324, ENAE362, and ENAE432. Corequisite: Concurrently
enrolled in ENAE414. Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Aerospace
program; or permission of ENGR-Aerospace Engineering department.
Aircraft design principles blending both synthesis and analysis. The
iterative nature of the design process. Applied aerodynamics. Elements
of aircraft performance calculation and optimization. Design of
aircraft including payload, crew and avionics provisions, propulsion
selection and sizing, aerodynamic configuration optimization, mass
properties, stability and control characteristics, and vehicle
subsystems. Individual student projects in aircraft design.
ENAE 482 Aeronautical Systems Design (3)
Two hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory per week.
Prerequisite: ENAE455, ENAE423, ENAE403, and ENAE481. Restriction: Must
be in Engineering: Aerospace program; and Senior standing or higher.
Senior capstone design course in the aeronautics track. Introduction
of computerized methods for sizing and performance analysis. More
comprehensive methods to predict weight, aerodynamics and propulsion
system characteristics. Consideration in design disciplines such as
vulnerability, maintainability, produceability, etc. Groups of students
will complete, brief and report on a major design study to specific
requirements.
ENAE 483 Principles of Space Systems Design (3)
Prerequisite: ENAE404, ENAE324, ENAE362, and ENAE432. Restriction: Must
be in Engineering: Aerospace program; or permission of ENGR-Aerospace
Engineering department.
Principles of space systems analysis and vehicle design. Launch vehicle
performance analysis and optimization. Design of vehicle systems
including avionics, power, propulsion, life support, human factors,
structures, actuator and mechanisms, and thermal control. Design
processes and design synthesis. Individual student projects in vehicle
design.
ENAE 484 Space Systems Design (3)
Three hours of lecture and six hours of discussion/recitation per week.
Prerequisite: ENAE423, ENAE483, ENAE441, and ENAE457. Restriction: Must
be in Engineering: Aerospace program.
Senior capstone design course in the space track. Group preliminary
design of a space system, including system and subsystem design,
configuration control, costing, risk analysis, and programmatic
development. Course also emphasizes written and oral engineering
communications.
ENAE 488 Topics in Aerospace Engineering (1-4)
Prerequisite: Permission of student's advisor required. Restriction:
Permission of instructor.
Technical elective taken with the permission of the student's advisor
and instructor. Lecture and conference courses designed to extend the
student's understanding of aerospace engineering. Current topics are
emphasized.
ENAE 499 Elective Research (3)
Prerequisite: Permission from student's advisor required. Restriction:
Senior standing or higher; and must be in Engineering: Aerospace
program; and permission of instructor; and permission of ENGR-Aerospace
Engineering department. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs.
Undergraduate research project and paper conducted under the direction
of an aerospace engineering faculty member to be presented at a
conference or competition.
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